She Votes as Well

 

I consider myself a well informed, relativity intelligent voter with an understanding of issues. At 74 years young, I have seen a lot of climate. In my opinion, the climate isn’t changing but the weather does constantly. That is what weather does. A deviation from the mean is not a catastrophe. The same can be said for CO2 levels. CO2 is arguably the most important item for sustainability of human life. Of course, water could be as important.

I had a discussion with one of my neighbors. She appears to be a normal person. The discussion was non-political and it stayed that way. It started something like this:

I said, “ Good morning, isn’t it a beautiful day?”

Neighbor, “it sure is but look at all those contrails. That is the government spraying for CO2.”

Me, keeping it simple, “no, contrails are frozen water vapor.”

Her, “why can’t we hear the planes then?”

Me, “well they are probably at 35,000 feet and another six miles on the horizon.”

Her, “why are there so many of them if they aren’t spraying for CO2? It says on the internet that Trump is behind it all.”

This is what with we are faced. She cancels my vote.

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  1. OldPhil Coolidge
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    Don’t you realize that if every weather-related factor (heat, cold, rain, snow, storms, floods, fires) isn’t within average ranges ALL THE TIME, we’re doomed? 

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  2. Slow on the uptake Coolidge
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    PHCheese: This is what with we are faced

    Appreciate your efforts to avoid misplaced participles. :)

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  3. Rodin Member
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    No, @phcheese, you cancel her vote.

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  4. EB Thatcher
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    “Spraying for CO2” ?  What does that even mean?

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  5. James Byers Member
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    Always mention Solar Cycles when discussing “climate change.”

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  6. Stina Inactive
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    James Byers (View Comment):

    Always mention Solar Cycles when discussing “climate change.”

    4th grade botany should be enough. It isn’t on Ars Technica, but these people aren’t that saturated in science that they know there’s debate on how much CO2 plants are capable of absorbing.

    If we have to much oxygen in the atmosphere, maybe our sun will cause the world to spontaneously combust.

    Can I start a crack-pot cult aiming to increase the lung capacity of the world now?

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  7. DonG Coolidge
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    I feel canceled out on most issues.

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  8. OkieSailor Member
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    PHCheese: In my opinion the climate isn’t changing but the weather does constantly. That is what weather does.

    Climate changes over millennia  not decades. Weather changes yearly, each year of my 7 decades I’ve heard over and over, “This is the strangest year we’ve ever had here!” They are right, of course, but why is anyone still surprised? But climate, as far as we can tell by looking at the available evidence, has changed in many ways over the discernible existence of this Rock. Some changes have been good for mankind and some have not. Some have been good for other life forms and some have not. What has caused these changes is open to speculation of which there has been plenty.
    But what your neighbor needs to know in order to vote intelligently is that the Statist response to this ‘crisis’ is exactly the same as their response to every other event going back to the start of History, namely, More money and More Power for them to use to control our little lives thereby improving our lives and decisions according to their enlightened understanding of how we need to order our deplorable existences. Could it be that the real reason “The Science is Settled, (read: Stop arguing and just do as we say.) is the current trope offered to keep you from informing your neighbor that something doesn’t smell right?
    Unless your neighbor has been taught to think for herself (not available in public schools for decades, nor commonly so in most Universities) or has somehow gained such subversive talents on her own she isn’t equipped to hear, much less consider, ideas contrary to those being constantly force fed to the masses today, this being one such example.
    Nevertheless, thank you for making the effort. Maybe she will eventually experience a spark of doubt igniting a healthy curiosity leading to an investigation sparked by awareness that not everything is just as the standard narrative being broadcast and published daily would have us believe. She, like many of us, may have to wade through several conspiratorial swamps before encountering solid ground but the destination is worth the journey.

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  9. Arahant Member
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    I sometimes watch videos on Youtube that make me despair:

    Yes, many of them vote.

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  10. Rightfromthestart Coolidge
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    I’m 72, the winters and summers are no different than they ever were. I live on an island, I can’t help but notice that the Boardwalk is exactly as far from the water as it was when it was built 90 years ago.

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  11. GFHandle Member
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    Slow on the uptake (View Comment):
    low on the uptake

    PHCheese: This is what with we are faced

    Appreciate your efforts to avoid misplaced participles. :)

    Churchill is often credited with “Ending a sentence with a preposition is a mistake up with which I will not put.”

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  12. Basil Fawlty Member
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    I thought contrails were the way drug traffickers walk across the border.

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  13. philo Member
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    PHCheese: …but look at all those contrails…

    I sure miss those overnight Art Bell shows from the mid-1990s. 

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  14. Slow on the uptake Coolidge
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    Rightfromthestart (View Comment):

    I’m 72, the winters and summers are no different than they ever were. I live on an island, I can’t help but notice that the Boardwalk is exactly as far from the water as it was when it was built 90 years ago.

    Why is your island rising at the same rate as the water?  Has it always been rising?  How do you explain the coincidence that it is rising at the same rate as the sea level?

    No, you must be mistaken: At 72 you can’t trust your memory anyway – I know.

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  15. PHCheese Inactive
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    Slow on the uptake (View Comment):

    PHCheese: This is what with we are faced

    Appreciate your efforts to avoid misplaced participles. :)

    This is what happens when a dyslexic writes a post 5 minutes before his granddaughters  softball game.

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  16. Slow on the uptake Coolidge
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    PHCheese (View Comment):

    Slow on the uptake (View Comment):

    PHCheese: This is what with we are faced

    Appreciate your efforts to avoid misplaced participles. :)

    This is what happens when a dyslexic writes a post 5 minutes before his granddaughters softball game.

    Hope her team won!

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  17. PHCheese Inactive
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    Slow on the uptake (View Comment):

    PHCheese (View Comment):

    Slow on the uptake (View Comment):

    PHCheese: This is what with we are faced

    Appreciate your efforts to avoid misplaced participles. :)

    This is what happens when a dyslexic writes a post 5 minutes before his granddaughters softball game.

    Hope her team won!

    No they lost 15 to 0 but she attends the academic magnet school known for their GPA rather than athletic skills.

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  18. OldPhil Coolidge
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    Slow on the uptake (View Comment):

    Rightfromthestart (View Comment):

    I’m 72, the winters and summers are no different than they ever were. I live on an island, I can’t help but notice that the Boardwalk is exactly as far from the water as it was when it was built 90 years ago.

    Why is your island rising at the same rate as the water? Has it always been rising? How do you explain the coincidence that it is rising at the same rate as the sea level?

    No, you must be mistaken: At 72 you can’t trust your memory anyway – I know.

    Now, now, Congressman Johnson. I thought we cleared up that floating island thingy.

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  19. Songwriter Inactive
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    OkieSailor (View Comment):
    the Statist response to this ‘crisis’ is exactly the same as their response to every other event going back to the start of History, namely, More money and More Power for them to use to control our little lives thereby improving our lives and decisions according to their enlightened understanding of how we need to order our deplorable existences.

    A nice summary of pretty much every Leftist response to pretty much everything ever.

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  20. Full Size Tabby Member
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    The contrails comment gives me a chance to brag on my 2 year old grandson (whom we are visiting this weekend). At the park on Friday he pointed up at a contrail visible in the sky, and he said that was an airplane going by. So a 2 year old knows more than your neighbor. But I’m still opposed to giving 2 year olds the vote (no matter how smart).

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  21. Full Size Tabby Member
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    When my father was on a university faculty he was always on the opposite side of every faculty senate issue from another professor. But they got along, and both agreed the faculty senate meetings were a waste of time (focused as they were on administrative trivia that had no measurable impact on student education or useful faculty research). So they agreed between themselves since they cancelled each other’s votes, they’d both skip the faculty senate meetings. 

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  22. Slow on the uptake Coolidge
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    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):

    When my father was on a university faculty he was always on the opposite side of every faculty senate issue from another professor. But they got along, and both agreed the faculty senate meetings were a waste of time (focused as they were on administrative trivia that had no measurable impact on student education or useful faculty research). So they agreed between themselves since they cancelled each other’s votes, they’d both skip the faculty senate meetings.

    Been a long time so I don’t recall the names but a man made that same agreement with half a dozen Democrats.

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  23. Full Size Tabby Member
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    Slow on the uptake (View Comment):

    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):

    When my father was on a university faculty he was always on the opposite side of every faculty senate issue from another professor. But they got along, and both agreed the faculty senate meetings were a waste of time (focused as they were on administrative trivia that had no measurable impact on student education or useful faculty research). So they agreed between themselves since they cancelled each other’s votes, they’d both skip the faculty senate meetings.

    Been a long time so I don’t recall the names but a man made that same agreement with half a dozen Democrats.

    That was clever of him!

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  24. Sweezle Inactive
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    WOW. At least two people posting in the same thread that are older than me!

    Makes me happy.

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  25. Slow on the uptake Coolidge
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    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):

    Slow on the uptake (View Comment):

    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):

    When my father was on a university faculty he was always on the opposite side of every faculty senate issue from another professor. But they got along, and both agreed the faculty senate meetings were a waste of time (focused as they were on administrative trivia that had no measurable impact on student education or useful faculty research). So they agreed between themselves since they cancelled each other’s votes, they’d both skip the faculty senate meetings.

    Been a long time so I don’t recall the names but a man made that same agreement with half a dozen Democrats.

    That was clever of him!

    Well…if you can trust those fellows!  :)

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